A couple hours ago Microsoft announced that Office 2007 will support ODF 1.1. While this is good news on it’s own, what’s more remarkable is that it is unlikely that Office 2007 will support OOXML (or rather [ISO/IEC 29500]), the standard Microsoft bought for itself.
Apparently Office 14 will probably be the first product on the market to support the OOXML standard. And the release date for Office 14? Who knows…
Other formats to be supported by Office 2007:
- PDF 1.1
- PDF/A
- and Microsoft’s competing fixed-text format, called XML Paper Specification.
UPDATE (22.05.2008 12:20): ODF support should be included in Office 2007 SP2 in the first half of 2009
[ConsortiumInfo.org via Slashdot]
Tags: odf, office 14, office 2007, ooxml